Actually it is already 21 years, because already in summer 1996 THE ELECTRIC FAMILY (then still as The Perc's Electric Family) had their first live appearance at the Herzberg Festival in front of 30.000 people. But as the band's debut album 'Welcome to the Family Show with the Folks you know' was released in 1997, so we celebrate the band's 20. anniversary this year .Founded in Bremen by Tom 'The Perc' Redecker, from the beginning the project became a multimusical association, which knows no boundaries and seems to feel comfortable in every genre, regardless of whether it is prog-, Kraut-, punk-, jazz- or folkrock. It's not surprising that numerous musicians from such diverse bands as Amon Düül II, Die Ärzte, Grobschnitt, Boa's Voodoo Club, Lokomotive Kreuzberg, Pankow, Rockhaus, Mojo Club, Emsland Hillbillies - to name only a few - joined THE ELECTRIC FAMILY in the studio and on stage. Famous Geman singer Ulla Meinecke gave her first English-language record contribution to the Family at all. For their second album, 'Tender', 1999, THE ELECTRIC FAMILY had almost received the German Critic Record Prize, and to the third album 'Ice Cream Phoenix' American rock writer David Fricke (Rolling Stone) wrote the liner notes! 'You can get lost in this music,' was his enthusiastic conclusion, and in principle this assessment may be valid for all albums (and performances) of THE ELECTRIC FAMILY. In the summer of 2016, with The Perc (vocals, guitar, bass), Harry Payuta (vocals, sitar, bass) Rolf Kirschbaum (vocals, guitar) and Hanno Janssen (drums) four original band members gathered in the studio with Anders Becker (keyboardist of the legendary Mandra Gora Lightshow Society), and Steff Ulrich, drums and percussion.There were a few planned gigs with Krautrock legend Agitation Free, which should not take place. So the musicians decided to go to the studio and record the next studio album. 'We wanted to record the songs of the next album live, without overdubs, directly and spontaneously, and it was big fun,' remembers Tom 'The Perc' Redecker. 'On the setlist came only titles, which we also wanted to play live.'In just two and a half days the job was done, and the recordings finished.One can say without exaggeration, that 'Terra Circus' has become the most powerful and impulsive album of the Electric Family. The energy is almost tangible, and especially guitarist Rolf Kirschbaum (The Pachinko Fake, ex-Witt, ex-Fehlfarben) rages as if it were about his life. But the whole band is presented in the very best condition: Harry Payuta shows repeatedly that he is one of the best sitarists of the time, analogue keyboardist Anders Becker shines on his keys, the two drummers Janssen and Ulrich push and push forward uninterruptedly, and bandleader The Perc holds the band together with his 6 or 12 strings. The deeply self-contained cover versions were always the salt in the soup of the Electric Family, 'Lucrecia, my Reflection' of the Sisters Of Mercy is a psychedelic monster with sitar support, and 'Mary, Mary so contrary' from CAN grows to a passionate contribution with Slide Guitar and a three-pipe organ solo in the key part. Redecker, Payuta and Kirschbaum alternative with each other behind the mics, and the album ends with the jam session 'The Dreamboat', and after that, nothing can happen! A strong,album!

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